Anne Thompson is a film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she writes the Thompson on Hollywood blog. Born and raised in New York City, she’s a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, London Observer and Wired. She served as the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter from January, 2005 to March, 2007 and before that was the West Coast Editor of Premiere, from 1996 to 2002.

Before joining Premiere, Thompson tracked behind-the-scenes Hollywood as a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and as West Coast Editor for Film Comment Magazine. From 1985 to 1993, she wrote the film industry column "Risky Business" for L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, she teaches the fall semester of “Sneak Previews” for UCLA Extension.

In December 2006, she co-hosted Ebert & Roeper, as Roger Ebert was still recovering from illness. Thompson and Roeper reviewed The Good Shepherd, Venus, We Are Marshall, Night at the Museum, and The Dead Girl. They agreed on every movie except We Are Marshall, which earned an enthusiastic thumbs-up from Roeper, and Night at the Museum, which earned a "mild" thumbs-up from Thompson.